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Examples of offshoot in a Sentence

The business started as an offshoot of an established fashion design company.

we knew the rosebush had survived the harsh winter when it began producing offshoots and turning green again

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In its clearest form, the right of publicity, an offshoot of privacy law, is meant not as a tool of censorship but to enable celebrities and other public figures to protect their images from false or unauthorized endorsements of products.

An offshoot of this advisory council, the Expansion Working Group, is meeting Monday night in Galveston to discuss a proposal to expand the banks by about 383 square miles of reefs and other bottom features — an additional 15 banks.

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